Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > > Not my experience, when I looked more than a week ago, their FTP > > site already had patches for early .10-pre versions. > > OK, I spent most of the weekend trying to get XFS and a 2.4.x kernel > to compile. > > Woody has a patch for XFS. It's against kernel 2.4.5. There is NO > kernel-source package for 2.4.5. So there appears to be no way to do > a debian package XFS kernel install at this time.
You can build kernel packages with kernel-package from any Linux tree. > Latest version on SGI's site > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html) is for 2.4.10-pre8 > (whoops, just double checked that and a patch for pre-10 just released > yesterday, i'll try that next). > > So I downloaded 2.4.9, patched it up to 2.4.10pre8. Patched XFS in. > > Try compile using standard woody gcc (2.95.4). It fails (see below > for error) > > SGI's web site says XFS should be compiled using gcc 2.91.66, which > doesn't seem to be available as a Debian package. I built -pre5 with the current woody gcc and it works fine. I remember having to make a minor merge manually though, you might want to try 2.4.9 . > drivers/block/block.o: In function `rd_ioctl': > drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x2b64): undefined reference to `__put_user_bad' > drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x2b64): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 > __ > put_user_bad Are you using one of the PPC trees as a basis? PPC isn't fully merged into Linus' yet AFAIK. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
